Ventilated bustle and hip-form.



PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1903.

O. H. SCOTT. VBNTILATED BUSTLB AND HIP FORM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. SCOTT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VEN-TILA.T-ED BUSTLE- AND HIP-FORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 723,495, dated March24, 1903.

Application filed November 3, 1902. Serial No. 129,887. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES H. SCOTT,a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilated Bustles andHip- Forms,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in an article of wearing-apparelto be worn by women for producing a more symmetrical figure and to causethe skirts to fit more gracefully; and it consists in certainpeculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement, and operation ofthe various parts thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully set forthand specifically claimed.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a bustle and hip-formwhich will be light and comfortable to the wearer and will produce anattractive and symmetrical figure, besides furnishing means to cause theskirts to hang properly and fit snugly and neatly around the waist andhips.

Another object is to provide a device of the above-described characterwhich shall be of such a construction that when in place on the body ofthe wearer it will aiford means for the escape ofairconfinedbetweenitslowersurface and the body and at the same time, aswell'as when it is not worn, will be self-ventilating that is, it willbe so made that air will be circulated through its padding orfillingthus keeping it free of moisture from the perspiration of thebody and rendering it at all times cleanly and sanitary.

A still further object is to so construct the form that it will bereversible and either side worn next to the person.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be disclosed in thesubjoined description and explanation.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionpertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it,referring to the accompanying drawings, in whicl1 Figure 1 is a view insideelevatiou of a por-- tion of the body of a woman, showing a bustleor hip-form embodying my invention in place thereon. Fig. 2 is adetached plan view of the bustle and hip-form. Fig. 3 is'acrosssectional View taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in thedirection-indicated by the arrows and illustrating by dotted lines theposition the parts will assume when reversed. Fig. 4 is an enlargedfragmental view in elevation of a portion of the body of a woman,showing the bustle and hip-form in section, taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 2,and in place thereon and illustrating the position of the skirt. Fig. 5is a plan view of a portion of the bustle, showing one of theventilating-gromets therein. Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken online 6 def Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan View of a fragment of the bustle andhip-form,showing a modification in the construction of the ventilators.Fig. 8 is a cross-section thereof, taken on line 8 8 of Fig. '7. Fig. 9is a detached perspective view of one of the ventilator-disks employedin the construction illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8. Fig. 10 is a plan viewof a portion of the bustle and hip-form, showing still anothermodification in the construction of the ventilators. Fig. 11 is acrosssectional view taken on line 11 11 of Fig. 10. Figs. 12 and 13 arefragment-a1 plan views of the bustle and hip-form, showing othermodifications in the construction of the ventilators.

Like numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout thedifferent views of the drawings.

The numeral 20 represents the covering of the bustle and hip-form,which'may be made of any suit-able material, but preferably of clothwhich is substantially non -porous or very closely woven in order toprevent the curled hair 21 of the padding piercing or passing throughthe same. This covering is preferably made of two pieces 221mm 23, whichare of the same shape and have at their upper edges a curved recess 24to fit around the waist of the wearer. are sewed together at their edgesand areso padded that they will present tapered or feathered edges allaround the device, thus causing it to fit the figure in such a manner asto produce a perfect fit and poise of the skirts without beingdiscernable there through. As the pieces 22 and 23, forming the coveringof the bustle and hip-form, are substantially non-porous and as thedevice is so made that it forms a shell-like or concavo -convex formwhen in position on the body of the wearer, it becomes necessary inorder that it shall not be uncomfortably warm for the wearer that it beperforated, so that The pieces 22 and 23 the heat of the body and airmay pass through said perforations. To accomplish this end, I have shownin the drawings a variety of ventilators, any of which I may employwithout departing from the spirit of my invention.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have shown one of the ventilators, which comprises athimble 25, which has on its lower end an annular flange 26, providedwith a series of openings 27 to admit air to the padding or filling 2],which may be of curled hair or other suitable material. The thimble 25,which has its upper and lower ends open, is placed in suitable openingsin the pieces 22 and 23, forming the covering of the form, and a disk28, having a series of openings 27 and a central opening to receive theupper end of the thimble, is placed on the upper surface of the covering22, when the upper end of the thimble may be clenched by means of a dieor suitable instrument, so as to hold the disk 28 in position. Beforesecuring the parts together, however, a piece of gauze, bobbinet, orother reticulated material 29 is placed between the piece 23 and thelower portion of the padding 2i and between the piece 22 of the coveringand the upper surface of the padding, so as to prevent the paddingescaping through the openings 27, yet admitting air to circulate throughthe padding from one ventilatingopening to the other.

As shown in Figs. 2 to 4, inclusive, the bustle and hip-form is tufted,as usual, and is formed with an enlargement or pad 30 at its centralupper portion, through which pad is passed one of the ventilators. Thisenlargement or pad 30 produces a channel or circular groove 31 at thelower portion thereof, which groove or channel will guide the air to theseries of ventilators which are located in the form, as shown in Figs. 2and 4 of the drawings.

Instead of using the gromets shown in Figs. 5 and Band above describedas ventilatorsI may employ the construction illustrated in Figs. 7 andS, which comprises two disks 32 and 33, each of which hasa centralopening 34 and a series of openings 35 near its periphery. Between thepiece 23 of the covering and the lower surface of the filling is locateda piece of reticulated material 29,

and between the piece 22 of the covering and i the upper surface of thefilling is located another reticulated piece 29, which pieces extendacross the central opening 34:, as shown in Fig. 7 of the drawings, thusallowing the air to pass through the form and to circulate through thepadding or filling from one ventilator to the other.

In Figs. 10 and 11 is shown still another modification in theconstruction of the ventilators, which consists in forming the covering20 of the form with openings 36, which may be worked around their edgeslike buttonholes. In this construction two pieces of gauze orreticulated material 29 is placed between the upper piece 22 and thelower piece 23 of the covering and the upper and lower surfaces of thefilling, respectively, as is clearly shown in Fig. 11, thus permittingthe air to pass through the form and to circulate through the filling,as in the other constructions.

In Figs. 12 and 13 are shown two other forms of ventilators, in theformer of which a gromet 37 of the ordinary or any pre- -ferredconstruction is used and which may be placed in suitable openings in theform, arranged so as to be located in the circular channel 31 and in themiddle of the pad or enlargement 30, as-shown in-Figs. 2 and 4,and atother points in the form when desired. In Fig. 13, as well as in Fig.12, the reticulated material is omitted, and the opening 38 is workedaround its edges like a buttonhole.

From the foregoing and by reference to the drawings it will be seen andclearly understood that by employing my construction athoroughly-ventilated and highly-sanitary device is furnished, one ofthe important features of which is the enlargement or pad 30, which iscentrallyperforated and ventilated, and which pad, with the lowerportion of the form, produces the channel'30, which guides the heatedair to the ventilators located in said channel.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a hustle and hip-formcomprising a covering having a series of ventilators, filling located insaid covering, the filling and covering being so made as to produce anenlargement or pad at the central upper portion of the form and acircular channel near the lower portion of the pad, the ventilatorsbeing located in said channel, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a hustle and hip-formcomprising a filled covering, an enlargement or pad at the central upperportion of the form, an opening about the center of the enlargement orpad, a series of openings located around the edge of the pad, a piece ofreticulated material located at each end of said openings, each of saidpieces having an opening, a thimble located within the openings of thereticulated material, pad and filled covering, and having an aperturedannular flange on its lower end and an apertured disk secured on theupper end of the thimble, substantially as described.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a hustle and hip-formcomprising a filled covering having a series of ventilating-openings, areticulated piece of material secured at each end of and over each ofsaid openings and between the covering and the filling, substantially asdescribed.

CHARLES H. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. TILLMAN, A. GUSTAFSON.

